North and Central America

Until now we have been seeing essentially flat images. This is the
first picture in which there is any depth. The edges of the Earth are
6400 km behind California in the center of the picture. This is important
for the next several jumps because we can talk about a local volume
of space. For the next several jumps, I have not included the background
stars in the images. Think of each image as a cube of space of a particular
size. The image displays only those objects within the immediate volume
of space, without any background objects. I hope to convey a sense of
the emptiness of our part of the galaxy.